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"It is not clear when the grand jury inquiry, overseen by prosecutors with the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York, began or ex
by 3xblah 8y ago
"It is not clear when the grand jury inquiry, overseen by prosecutors with the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York, began or exactly what it is focusing on."
What is NYT source for this story?
A leak about the existence of an investigation?
NYT journalist saw entries for grand jury subpoenas on PACER?
How do they know the crime has to do with data deals?
We must wait until complaint is filed before anyone can disclose the statute allegedly violated, correct?
- IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago“according to two people who were familiar with the requests and who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential legal matters.” Yes, there is a lot (more) we would like to know. But this is as good a time as ever to do a little experiment regarding the practice of anonymous sources: at some point, we are likely to learn more about this investigation. Then, you can check if the information we have now was correct. Or, as the common accusation goes, it was a wholesale fabrication by the Times.
- 3xblah 8y agoThank you. Sadly, I missed that line. It sounds like a leak from within Facebook or another tech company on the receiving end of one of these requests. I always thought grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. Maybe this explains the anonymity. I guess it is not unusual for the fact of the existence of proceedings to leak and for media to speculate? Does this have potential to negatively affect the outcome?
- ovi256 8y ago>NYT source for this story Most probably a US DA turning the screws on Facebook.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoAre you suggesting NYT is lying...? I mean, why they'd lie about it? Prosecutors use the media routinely to push their POV so it's not that strange... Not revealing sources is SOP